Gullivar Jones, Warrior of Mars

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OH MY JACKET,, .ETROPE T/6HT-
UPPEP PROM THE Wf/C£#S'
C£M9 FOR THE FINAL T/ME...

THE CORPS WAS PART OF MY
PAST MOW. THERE WOULPBE
NO MORE tflL/AJG..,NO MORE
RISM/HO WE ONLYUFEX
HAD MA WAR NOBODY WANTBD..,

THSN f $UPP£NLY;A N/M8UB
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H/NP ME...A BOUL-CHlLUNG
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CREATURES ON THE LOOSE is published bv MAGAZINE MANAGEMENT CO.. INC OFFICE OF PUBLICATION: 625 MADISON
AVENUE. NEW YORK. N.Y. 10022. Published bi-monthly. Cbpyxighl <C) 1971 by Magazine Management Co., Inc. Marvel Comics Group, all
rights reserved 625 Madison Avenue. New York. N.Y. 10022. Vol. I. No. 16, Alarch, 1972 issue. Price 20<" per copy. No similarity between
any of the names, characters, persons, and/or institutions in this magazine with those of any living or dead person or institution is intended, and
any such similarity which may exist is .purely coincidental. Reprints courtesy of Atlas Magazines. Inc. 1961. Printed in the U.S.A. by World
Color Press. Inc., Sparta, Illinois 62286. Subscription rate S2.75 and S3. 25 Canada for 12 issues including postage. Foreign subscriptions S4*50>

YCJ && T LOOK, IS IT'S
LOOK IN A / s>H0Mfy YOU

ANP, WITH A CCRPlNG OF THROAT
MUSCLES...! SC&M8LEP0A79 IT,,,

MATS IT...

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^T* M3*P5 CAMEAtofiPfff TO
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WITH

/HST/HCWEL Y,

BUTS7/LLA WH/P- /
LASH ///HP TORE THE
VERY C£0m&$ FROM
AiY BQPY...

YET, THERE IT M4S„*AHP ONLY /W

mysterious s/G/yr-*M*<&& shielpep

ME, AG /T RU/A/GEP //Vr# WAT
&L/N0/NG MAELSTROM...!

WW IMG

JRS'/A/NEP THUS,,,
A PASSWG SECONP,
A MILLION YEARS,-
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WITH
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NOT UNI7ERSTANP.

THAT IS NOT

ONE OF ■me

amass.

IT—

HIM?

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TAKE

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LU-FW A W&AW,

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THERE WAS NO
SUCH THING-

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US THE GREATEST
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ANY TIME OR

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PLACE,,.

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HUH?

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ME BACK MILLIONS
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EVEN Y£#8$.,.

...COMPLETE
WITH LANGUAGE-
TRANSLATING

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yOU TELL ME W^K
ANP #0kV THAT 0LI7
GUY TRAVELED FORT/

MILLION MILES TO

PICK ON mei

BUT/ WHATEVER HE WAS/THIS LU-POV
G00&P IF HE THOUGHT I WAS
"M/$T£ZR/eW"10 HELPVOU
AGAINST THE SAffSAR/ANS.

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BACK THERE
BUT I'VE AM^

£9 OUfETLY CKWR/PENT WERE HER WRPS WAT X SPOKE AW 4f0££
FOR WE MOMENT.,, AMP SOOM WE WERE AMONG THE T2TAV& 'MAIN...

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^0 CMiPffCN AN? HEALTHY- IF NOT

PARTICULARLY &&AVE.

Af0pte~ no

MATURE r •MVtifm/N
OUICKLY... OUR VOJTHFUL
VIGOR UNTIL, LIKE
LU-W. WENEARPEATH,

...WHICH W!NP5 TO THE £AtfP 0F

K S00W4/VP/C& sy the way,

\WHAT IS VOUR AW/Hf?

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ANP I ENJCYEP THE NEXT FEW MART/AN MAYS,.,

„.AB HERU 70LP ME \
S£S£/W& HANPEP v — v

pown of her c/ry^fwjf

BUILT BY HER GOLP- jCf
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built.orwuyJ Iv>;l

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FOREVER GONE,

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SFTH/THEN PURELY YOU HITHES

PEOPLE COULP--

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MY HEAP£Wfcl& FKOM
EXPLAINING OUR WORLP

to you.

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3ASK IN THE 6L0W OF
A&M4A lW£C££$tt ft

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you wim.

THE/tfA/A/

THING I WANT TO KNOW,
ANYHOW, I'VE BEEN TOO
CMCA&V TO ASK.

IF >&&'/?£ A vpRtwessi

ANP THAT CLOWN /Mr//
IS A "/WASr^THEN
WHAT— I /MEAN —

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PlSTANT

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CLAIM ON /WE WHEN HE SUR-
RENDERED /VIE TO THE AMNIONS

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shone w&t

IN THE WING-
MAN'S E/ES..*

HE KNEW NOW WAT
HE WASN'T FACING
ONE OF THE PALL IP

A /l\\

...I THINK ^
I'LL JUST

..J WASNOT/MMMi

TO A WILPLY FLAILING

knot/

...NORPIPI
KNOW, MOMENTS
LATE?, 7MAT BARbt
ANPZ WEGE
BOTH FLY/M6

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CREATURES
ON THE LOOSE

20* JZ

ARVEL COMICS GROUP,

GULLIVAR JONES, WAXWOP OF MRS,**

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UNMOWNG, UNKNOWING, I LAY UPON THE MARTIAN BARGE,

H £M2L £ Z? 2£* ™ £ H AR S H CROAKINGS OF NIGHT- BORN
P££PATOffS UPON THE NEAR BUT UNREACHABLE
SHORE. AND ALL THE WHILE, THE FUNEREAL C&AFT
FLEW SWIFTLY, EUER MORE SWIFTLY DOWN THE
SINISTER COURSE WHICH THE MARTIANS CALL THE-

'Mm

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FOR, THI$ 19 THAT FATAL STREAM
WHICH HA& NO OUTLET, AN P FROM
WHICH THERE IS NO R£TUg#wa~.'

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CREATURES ON THE LOOSE is published h> MAGAZINE MANAGEMENT CO., INC. OF-KICb OE PUBLICATION: 625 MADISON AVENUh.
NEW YORK. N.Y. 10022. Published bimonthly. Copyright © IV72 by Magazine Management Co.. Inc. Marvel Comics Group, all rights reserved 625
Madison Avenue. New York. N.Y. 10022. Vol. I. No. |7. May. I*»72 issues. Price 20c* per copy. No similarity between any of the names,
characters, persons and.'or institutions in this magazine with those of any living or dead person or institution is intended, and any such similarity which
may exist is purely coincidental. Reprints courtesy of Atlas Magazines. Inc. I*>6I Printed in the USA by World Color Press. Inc.. Sparta. Illinois 622So
Subscription rale S2.75 for 12 issues. Canada S3. 25. Foreign S4.50.

I SCARCEL Y FEL T THE

WONDROUS COLD BREATH
WHICH BRUSHED MY CHEEK

AS THE BOAT PRIFTEP
NORTH WARP, NORTHWARP...

m

Aftg

...WHILE LEAGUE?
FLOWEP BY, PETALS
CAUGHT IN TIME'S
MAP TORRENT—

ONCE MORE, I RE-LIVEP
THAT OTHER NIGHT, SO
LONG ANO FAR AWAY,
WHEN I HAP LAST.
STOOD ON GARTHS ^
GREY FACE.., *
WHEN I HAD
HEARD.,.

6ULLIVA&

uones.'

^M2

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SIM

I, CU-POtS/HAVE

UOURNEYED MILES

ANP EONS TO

SUMMON YOU.

*MY TIMB IS

ENP£P„. BUT

YOC/RS IS YET
TO COME

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2

m

SEE LAST
ISSUE'S

ORIGIN

TALE.
-^STAN.

"Whip

V' 1

• mi

ONCE MORE THE GOLDEN
STRANGER 0/C0 IN MV
ARMS. BEQUEATHING TO ME
HIS MYS TER/OUS AMULET.. .

ONCE MORE X GRASPED IT.„

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*-)..,

— FOUND MYSELF
STREAK/NG SUPPENLY
SPACEWARD ABOARD

THE EERIE

LI6HT-N/M8US. . .

'..WHERE I ARR/l/EP AT
AN OPPORTUNB MOMENT
TO RESCUE THE

PRINCESS H£#0...

iwim^

s v

:>FRO/M THE

CRIMSON

BARBARIANS

WHO HAD
DEMANPEP
HER AS
TRIBUTE
FROM HER,
PEOPLE...

Q

£

...A PEOPLE TOO

WEAtC-WILLED,
TOO /NPOLENT

TO DEFEND
Ei/EN THEIR
OWN STAINED
HONOR-!

I

...CARR/EP 43 MILLION MILES,
ANP PERHAPS AS MANY YEA&&

BACKWARP IN TIME, TO THE

FA8L EP RED PLANET...

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ONCEMORE, T HELP THE
GOLPE/V H£#U /A/ MY ARMS,
UNPER THE MOONS OF MARS.,.

.SY THOSE mURlPEROUS AlfN/ONS OF

the #e0 bar&ar/ans.-.the
Swooping sv/a/6-mem '

...WHEKE THE DEV/L-- ?
OH Yt$--N0W I
REMEMBER.

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WELL, AT LEAST Y/ BUT- -THEY
THEY *W~ ONCE pv *S5»* COM/ASS.',

I CHOP 'EM
PRACTICALLY

IN •moi

\

EVIDENTLY THEY'RE IN
IOA/G SUPPLY -
AND I'M A/OT!

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WELL THEN/

0EM-0ABY,

4 *

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...you just

HURRY BACK

AND KEEP
YOUR BUDDIES
COMMNY/

7

r

?//

/HOA/ST£#S..JHAT

KEAP VOUR /H/A/0...
MAKE VOU SEE—
WHAT YOU tt&A'T
TO SEE —

H£gVf IT WAS

ONLY THAT BEAUTIFUL

-&£N 61*1 WUO ,

F/UEPMY THOUGHTS, '
MY FANT4S/ES. AS I

SLUMPEP PORWAR£TTROM.
> NAKED EXHAUSTION...

THE. RISING, WINTRY WINP BLEW
OV&MEi AS IT HAP BEFORE... .

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..ANP OMENS
OF THE PEA7H,
THAT EVEN
LONG-LIVED
MARTtAHS t
MUST DIE—'

— r- -. — :

BUT NOW IT WAS

COLPB& than ever,
though i d/pn't
feel it...

/'

'

,*

...NOR P/P I SEE THE RQCXY SHORES WHICH
PASSEP MY BOW GIVE WAY SLOWLY. SURELY, TO
SNOIY-CAPPS0 PEAKS..-. /Cy CRAGS..,

ATLASZ AS NJGHT
FELL A SBCOA/O
TIME, THE RUSHING
WATERS MUST HAVB

AGAIN—-

S

.s

BUT HOW MY EARTHLY EVES WOULD
HAVE SH</£>0£#£& TO &EWU}
STRETCHED BSTHSS&V TiVO
JUTTING PROMONTORIES OF
SHIMMER/NG WHITE

fiMB

/

A

SINISTER,
LATTICED

'/

HEARING SOUNPLESS SOUNDS, I St74ffBP., .

AND THEN— MY
SENSES tf££L£P~/i

MtN—^DyGAf/ES, PUT
BUILT LIKE SFYD£#S-
WITH HEADS LIKE
SATS/

THEY (/A/0£ffSTOO0,
ALL RIGHT, . THOUGH
THEY WASTED NO WORDS
UPON ONE THEY JfM

CONSIDERED MERELY-- ( / \ "

CONTINUED AFTER NEXT PAGE

THE WEB-*QP£$
tVE/?E sticky...

S/OCEA//A/GLY
MO/ST... THE/e
MELPE&S

srxo/VGE/?

THAN X'P
/MA6/NEU.

.Off MAYBE tr tVAS f£A* WHtCH HELP *IE
HELPLESS /N THE/ff CLUTCHES.

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VET, AN ANCIENT
MART/AM PROVE KB
SAYS THAT FEAR
/S THEfATHEK
OF MANY
CHILDREN...

...AND SOG&tTOSr AMONG

BUT I'M

4LiyB/\

w

VQU MISSSP MB, GENTLEAAEN^)

I
^

..MNTIL>
EVEN AS

THEY

naive

THE/ff
iVEB-
SMAffES
AOAfN...

t

BUT THEN— yOU'^E U9ED
TO OVB&-IOYAL WIVES AND
PCJeWTENEP Se&VANfS"

6.

— ¥0T A GUY WHO COULD

LEAP A TALL MAfZTIAN
&WL0M6 IN A SINGLE
BOUND!

700 LATE I INMYA#G££, T
HAD DELAYED AN INSTANT
TOO LONG! SUDDENLY, HALF

A D02EN W£8-#OP£S WERE
TOSSED SIMULTANEOUSLY—

^3

N0TH/N6?
CAN THEY

EVEN

ME

OR-?

CONTINUED AFTER NEXT PAGE

WH"? THE

WAT£f?S—

THGY'ee

CHURNING,

LIKE

SOMETHING

WAS—

THEN, EVEN A$
MY MIND SPUN
WILDLY ABOUT:..

—AND /rs

CONS/PE2A3LE
BULK MUST

HAVE CXEATE0

GKEAT,

RESOUND/N6

SCHOfS...

A HUGE
BOUL0SR

WAS SENT
TUMBL/N&
00MV A
NEAgBY CZAG..y

£2

—BUT ALL

our or

s/Gur».

BENEATH

AN/CY

M/e*oe-.J

THAT, J

SAPLY PEAS - -

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M&T:

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JONES Ut/£S
LONO ENOUGH!

WAggtOR
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SjO— AS X HUNG
CHAIN EP TO THAT

ANCIENT P/LLA&
NEAR THE POLAR
CAP, I SAW ONLy
THE GAT£Ke£P£X
OF THE MARTIAN

PKeAPeo PMffA

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For only three short pays
hap i 6reathep the strangety
sweet maat/aa/ aa*~ yet
in that time, i hap fought
great crimson sapsaa/aasi
— anp rescuep the most
beautiful p#//vc£ss my

mjnp coulp imagine—'

yET >v©h* My

THOUGHTS WERE
NOT OF LOVELy
WAV/

k-

*,

CJFAS0

your
fruitless

L STRUGGLINGS,j
PINK-SK/N/

^

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IT IS

COM

yOU SEEK"
ANP THERE IS *
/V0 ESCAPE
FROM

*=-.

•tf*

r stan tee

PRESENTS A VOYAGE TO THE vVA«-PLAN£T,
ABlv conoucreo by:

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GCOftQe w 6t*Ay + /toss W «f*

f WA**W **fftVWK *AM*tt/ *MrW«f*

WAITERS ARTISTS

-^

LETTEREP 0/

JEAN

1 H ft H]

WITH AN HISTORICAL AERIES JN5P1REP »V THE
HELPWG HANP ^V^^J^"**

THOMAS CO**" *~ A***t*4„ J

CREATURES ON THE LOOSE is published by MAGAZINE MANAGEMENT CO.. INC. OFFICE OF PUBLICATION: 625 MADISON AVENUE.
NEW YORK. N.Y. 10022. Published bi-monthly. Copyright © 1972 by Magazine Management Co.. Inc. Marvel Comics Group, all rights reserved 625
Madison Avenue. New York. N.Y. 10022. Vol. I. No. 18, July . 1972 issue. Price 20V per copy. No similarity between any of the names,
characters, persons and/or institutions in this magazine with those of any living or dead person or institution is intended, and any such similarity which
may exist is purely coincidental. Reprints courtesy of Atlas Magazines. Inc. Copyrighl © 1961. Printed in the U.S.A. bv World Color Press. Inc.. Sparta.
Illinois 62286. Subscription rale S2.7S for 12 issues. Canada S3. 25. Foreign S4.50.

MY CO-VICTIAA; THE WING-MAN, WAS AS HEIPIESS

AS I. BUT WHILE I STRUGGLED, CURSiNG, WITH THE
SHACKLES THAT HELD ME CAPT/V&, HE HUNG
LIMPLY AND PRAYEP FOR A QUICK DEATH"

look, polly, may&e
you're ik a hurry to
your .father-

That MONSTROUS BEAST SQUEEZED THE LIFE-
BREATH FROM ME UNTIL I THOUGHT MY RIBS WOUlP
CROC*. THE PALE SKY TURNED BLUE-THEN-- ^WC**/

AS I PASSED OUT,L
I THOUGHT I COULgF
STILL HEAR THE /f ^
WING-MAN'S .
SCREAMS—

_ Icome,

7you peap ones.' 1

COMZ&l

I

SB^

ft

r<

k»

•*WJ

WE SHALL

FIGHT TOGETHER,

WHITE- HAIR,

BEFORE 7//^

THRONE 0/=

DEATH/

-%

JL

One last instant
i hap, before

phra prownep
me in the icy

MART/AN FtOOO...
I TOOK A BREATH,
AND THE PAIN WAS

GREATER THAN Z
HAD EVER KNOWN
BEFORE...

too*.

Wj

oi

INE LAST INSTANT t HAP, TO SEE

THE EVIL NOLTOI/THE^WW-^MflSeff...
JEERING AT MY HELPLESS BOPX,.TO

HEAR THE CRAZED WING-MAN PRAY/HG
TO PHRA...

' !

...AND THEN THE WATERS
COVEREP ME, AND I KNEW
THAT I WOULD P/£.„

It was so quiet, anp

I WAS SO Tt#EP~

^ \ '\w

V IU J.

Op /roff« anp itf~Po\t anp mis eerie amulet

THAT MAP BROUGHT ME ACROSS THE AULES AND THE

YEARS, TO A MARS OUR SPACEPROBES WILL

NEVER F/NR„

OP HERl/-- AMP HOW *W ^ I RESCUE? HER FROM. HER
BARBARIAN CAPT0BS ANR I HOPE© WON HER HEART/
X PREAMEP OF MV APVENTURES, OF AW JOURNEX POWN
THE */K6? OFTM0£A0„.7H£ WATER, THE BARGE, P^W/iV^lj

CONTINUED AFTER NEXT PAGE

THEM THE GOP IS \
FALSG-- ANP

PERHAPS" WE
SHOULP PLOT

—THE WHOLE

TRUTH WERE

REVEALEP/

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SOOTHfNG, FOR
SUPPENLY I FELT
THE PRESSURE OF
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HANP REACHING
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STRIP IT...!

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A\E 8Y THE FORCE OF AN INCREPIBLE EXPLOSION—/

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JOURNEY TO THE

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WITH THEM.

TO CHANCE A MIND VOU

MUST FIRST NAVE ONE,

TAILED ONE.

SOME DAY

THOSE WINGFOLK

WILL RE6RET

TH&R
INSOLENCE,

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US TAKE TH/S

ONE TOAR-HAA

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MUST LEARN INTO

WHOSE MANPS SHE

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I AM JEN-M, MINISTER TO 4fi-MP t AT/A/G Of) 1 I YOU WILL LEARN X —YOU MUST BE AAAPE

THE WOXLO.

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SHALL LIVE

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L/STEfi/, CUAK, JUST
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WITH A RE-
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SOMETHING SETTER- - WE HAP CO-OPERATION- ■

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SOON OUR TRAVAIL WOULP BEGIN ANSW»'WEFACEPA
CUM9 POWH THAT MASSIVE MOUNTAIN OF tCE—ANP
FROM THERE— WHO XNEW-1 [2]

EVEN A\Y EARTH-
TRAINEP '/MUSCLES
ARE WORN OJT,CMAK-;

---0UT UNTIL YOUR*
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WE'LL HAVE TO TRAVEL
REAL FRtGNPLY-
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you THANKS}

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ABANPON
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WELL-MATCHEP —

ALONE ON A HOSTILE
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FO80IPPEN -to Each

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THE FACT THAT I5TILL
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WE/RP PLANET. WHAT
$TRAN<S£ /MEN W^LKEP
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COUNTLESS EOtf?

BEFORE AV/OWN TIME—

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$EE AN ICE CUBE AGAIN '

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CUIPB—tAORE, HE

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ALREAVY RESTOREO MY HEALTH, /WV

STRENGTH

..ANSTEAP
OF A MERE
HUMAN.

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ONE POWER I P/Pft'THME— f LOOK,
CONJURING FOOPOUTOF / GULLIVARf AN
THE THIN, COLP MARTIAN
A/R*~OUR LONG JOURNEY
ACROSS THE PESOLATE

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CONSTANT SEARCH FOR
THE NEXT MEAL'

ENCAMPMENT/
THERE SURELY
WE SHALL FINC?
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WO/YPERS OF MY MEW HOME '--

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. auen worlp that was afars a b/ll/on years
before our ow/v t/me. who knows what

STRANGER S/GHTS AA/P PEA PC /£*? PER/IS L l/RK

ON THAT P/STANT PLANETP Gi/LL/VA* JONES
KNOWS/ /F YOU WANT MORE OF THE MYSTERY ANP
EXCtTEMENT AS GULL/YAR EXPLORES H/S MAP
PR/S0M..WELL, W#/T£ AA/P LET OS KNOW/

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